RUI: Customs Inspection and Shipping Culture at the Port of Fuzhou, China

RUI：中国福州港的海关查验和航运文化

• 批准号: 0752942
• 负责人: Julie Chu
• 金额: $ 12.5万
• 依托单位: Wellesley College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0752942&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; Customs; Inspection; Shipping; Culture

Dr. Julie Chu, along with in-country colleagues, will undertake research on changing laws and cultures of the regulation of international borders. Previously, the predominant focus of scholarship on border control has focused on the regulation of flows of migrants and commodities. Dr. Chu will break new ground by concentrating instead on the technocrats and technologies charged with monitoring and managing these flows. Her research focus will be on the work of customs and border control on the ground and how their activities affect conceptions and practices of sovereignty, territoriality, and global security. The research will be carried out at the Port of Fuzou, China, which recently has been promoted by central and provincial government policies for an expanded role in regional and global networks of economic and cultural exchange. The researcher will employ a mixture of social science methodologies, including policy analysis, archival research, participant-observation, and extensive interviews, to provide a comparative, historical, and ethnographic account of the management of mobile goods and mobile persons in and out of Fuzhou. The core data collection will focus on the everyday operations, material culture, and rituals of state workers and other facilitators of mobility through which the regulation of transnational flows and territorial boundaries are managed and negotiated. This study will advance theory and knowledge across several normally separate areas of social science, including anthropology, legal studies, immigration and refugee studies, and science and technology studies. The research will contribute to better understanding of how globalization is created and maintained in different local contexts. It also will foster international research cooperation and contribute to public policy for customs and border control in an era of global trade and security concerns.

朱莉·朱（Julie Chu）博士以及国内同事将对不断变化的法律和国际边界规范文化进行研究。以前，奖学金对边境控制的主要重点一直集中在移民和商品的流量上。 Chu博士将通过集中精力于监控和管理这些流量的技术专业人士和技术来打破新的基础。她的研究重点将放在地面上的海关和边境控制工作上，以及他们的活动如何影响主权，领土和全球安全的概念和实践。这项研究将在中国富祖港进行，该港最近由中央和省政府政策促进，以扩大在经济和文化交流的区域和全球网络中的作用。 研究人员将采用社会科学方法的混合，包括政策分析，档案研究，参与者观察和广泛的​​访谈，以提供对福州内外移动商品和移动人员管理的比较，历史和民族志叙述。 核心数据收集将集中于国家工人的日常操作，物质文化和仪式以及其他流动性的促进者，通过该行动，通过该行动进行了跨国流和领土边界的调节。 这项研究将推进几个通常分开的社会科学领域的理论和知识，包括人类学，法律研究，移民和难民研究以及科学技术研究。 这项研究将有助于更好地理解在不同的本地环境中如何创建和维持全球化。它还将促进国际研究合作，并在全球贸易和安全问题的时代为海关和边境管制的公共政策做出贡献。